Summary. The treatment of recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax consists of surgical resection of blebs and bullae with concomitant pleurodesis or pleurectomy.

The bleb is dissected, stapled, and the lung tissue is removed from the chest in a specimen bag, allowing more room for the remaining healthy lung to expand.

20 янв. 2021 г. · Your doctor may recommend bleb or bulla resection combined with mechanical pleurodesis — manual scarring of the pleura to prevent the ...

The pulmonary bleb is a small subpleural collection of air located within the layers of the visceral pleura. Blebs represent the coalescence of air from ...

We believe that VATS wedge closure of blebs by imbricating and buttressing them, without resection, is a feasible and effective alternative treatment for ...

The surgical strategy for the treatment of a spontaneous pneumothorax is resection of the blebs and bullae and obliteration of the pleural space by pleurectomy ...

Before stapling, blebs should be lifted using grasping forceps and an imaginary stapling line should be decided. To perform these procedure, lung tissues around ...

Over a 20-year period, 83 patients underwent operative pleurodesis with resection of pulmonary blebs for spontaneous pneumothorax.

Thus, the operative principle involves identification of the pulmonary bleb, stapled resection, and a procedure to increase pleural symphysis. Initial treatment ...

Blebectomy refers to an operation in which the blebs are removed. This helps to reduce the risk of another bleb bursting and causing a pneumothorax again.